SPRING NUMBER 61 
GIST. It was moved and passed that the Society endorse the 
proposed budget for the University of Florida. 
March 28. Society called to order at 4:30 P. M., President 
Watson in the chair. The paper of the evening was “Bumble 
Bees” by Prof. P. W. Fattig. His talk was very interesting 
and highly appreciated by the Society. Professor Fattig also 
showed a lot of insects that mimic bumble bees in their appear- 
ance. How nearly certain robber-flies look like bumble bees 
was certainly a surprise. Under “Timely Notes’ Prof. Watson 
exhibited some specimens of a large black thrips, Idolothrips 
fuscipes, recently captured near Gainesville. This is the third 
record of the capture of this insect, always on dry leaves. 
J. CHAFFIN, Secretary. 
SMOKER FOR PROFESSOR OSBORN 
On the evening of January 17, the Society held a smoker in 
honor of Professor Herbert Osborn, who is spending the win- 
ter in Florida. The smoker was held in the office of the 
Nursery Inspector in Language Hall, with upwards of forty 
members and invited guests present. Dean Wilmon Newell 
acted as toastmaster and a very enjoyable evening was spent. 
PERSONALS 
Among those present at the meeting of the Farm Bureau in 
Gainesville on March 11 and 12 were Mr. DeBusk of Tavares, 
C. D. Kime of Orlando, and Frank Merrim of Dade City. 
News has just reached us of the marriage last May of Mr. 
Eli K. Bynum, now inspector of the State Plant Board of Mis- 
sissippi, located at Ocean Springs, Miss. 
County Agents DeBusk of Lake County, Alfred Warren of 
St. Lucie, and K. E. Bragdon of Brevard are cooperating with 
the Department of Entomology of the Experiment Station in 
experiments in spraying for the control of thrips on citrus. 
Arthur C. Mason of the U. S. Ent. Laboratory at Orlando, 
who recently underwent an operation for appendicitis, has re- 
turned to the laboratory. 
On the evening of March 18, Dr. Davis addressed the 
Athenaeum Club at the University on the “Resources of Florida 
Waters.” 
Mr. J. C. Hamlin, who is employed by the Prickley Pear 
Board of the Commonwealth of Australia to collect for export 
